Army Officer Deshauna Barber Won Miss USA

Las Vegas:  Deshauna Barber, a serving U.S. Army officer and an IT analyst at the U.S. Department of Commerce, has been crowned Miss USA 2016.Twenty-six-year-old Barber, representing the U.S. capital as Miss District of Columbia, was declared winner of the pageant ahead of runners-up Miss Georgia Emanii Davis and Miss Hawaii Chelsea Hardin in Las Vegas Sunday night.

Women in combat


The strongest answer of the night when asked about women in combat. "As a woman in the united states Army, I think...we are just a tough as men. As a commander of my unit, I,m powerful, I am dedicated," Deshauna Barber said. "Gender does not limit us in the United States."
As the winner of sunday's 2016 Miss USA competition held at the T-Mobile Arena off the Las Vegas Strip, Ms.Barber will go on to compete in the miss universe contest.






According to her biography on the pageant’s website, Barber was commissioned as a Quartermaster Officer in 2011 and is currently a Logistics Commander for the 988th Quartermaster Detachment Unit based at Fort Meade, Maryland.Barber, who hails from a military family — her father is a retired Army Master Sergeant who served in Iraq — told the Washington Post that she considers military service “a family tradition.” And during the interview segment of the pageant, she praised the U.S. for opening all combat roles to women.“I think it was an amazing job by our government to allow women to integrate to every branch of the military,” she said. “As a commander of my unit, I am powerful. I am dedicated. And it is important that we recognize that gender does not limit us in the United States Army.”
Coming in second was Miss Hawali, who punted during the question and answer seqment when asked who she would vote for among the likely presidential candidates, democrat Hillary Clinton or former pageant owner Donald Trump, a Republican. Chelsea Hardin acknowledged that there was no way to correctly answer the question. The question was framed with Ms. Clinton's likely status of being the first woman nominated by a major political party for the white House.

Diverse Questions

The other women in the top five were asked about voting rights, income inequality and the recent death of muhammad ali. Fan favourite Miss california, Nadia Grace Mejia, had stumbled and paused when answering a question about social and economic inequality.
The 20 year old model whi is the daughter of the 1990s one hit wonder singerknown as 'Rico Suave', had also talked about suffering from anorexia and wanting to promote body confidence earlier in the show.
 The Fox network carried the tree-hour broadcast. Last year, the show aired on cable's Reelz network.  The beauty pageant organisation is bouncing back from a series of controversies last year, including a break-up with former owner Donald Trump and the mistaken crowning of miss Universe.